two is russia's ability to keep terrain. three, as russia's convention on al military power. and then capabilities such as using information to limit their power. you asked, and ukraine and ukraine partners have a lot of agency in shipping those elements of russia's capability. the first is by denying russia's momentum on the ground. we talked about supplying ukraine with what it needs to be successful in the next counteroffensive. secondly, recognizing that terrain is a core part of russian capability. whatever terrain they keep will use in future attacks. on the military-industrial complex of russia, a lot of necessary and good steps have been done to limit its access to? it's, western technology, but more needs to be done. finally, parsing through a lot of russian disinformation, including the key effort -- and i cannot emphasize this enough -- the key effort that is aimed to peel western support away from ukraine. countering those is essential. host: does targeting russian capabilities mean ukraine attacking russian depots, the ability to manufacture arms inside russia it

and now russia is fighting a war. just imagine that wherever country, whose population is believed to be officially believe to be in russia. but of the same people with russia it's, it's just mind boggling that russia has been able to, to fight their weight as it has fought over the past 11 months, given the relations between ukrainians and russians, given the relations between russia and the west. so, you know, i'm not surprised that they at the level of anger and mutual recrimination. and so what surprised it is, it's still held in check, but there's still very wide latitude that people enjoy people on the right side if you like that, that these people enjoy when they discuss things on the battlefield and discuss things at the head for us. it doesn't limit the whole thing is not limited to just the need to amend your mention. but the whole array of walk our respondents using the freedom. freedom of speech to the hilt, i would say. but what's left of it in tongue you'll get on the free press hasn't been a huge well l

whether in russia or outside of russia, i'm not talking about that. but if you, if you will, to read, if you were able to read russian and read a telegram channels that are both available to all citizens of russia, you'd be surprised that how much criticism sometimes justified, sometimes unjustified. you will hear you will read actually on those telegram channels. to be true trying to has russia underestimated the west determination to help you crane or is it still cling to the idea that in the end, nato will lose interest and leave ukraine to its own devices. well, i think that the initial concept of the special military operation was very different from what has been and unfolding since may be early march of last year. and had russia been able to achieve its goals? were there a couple of weeks, a couple of months there, and i think they would not have been that much that their west would have been able to do to support kia. so this, this really supported k f that it couldn't achieve its goals movement. well, not really, i think that the, again, i do

why china keep supporting russia over ukraine. major is officially impartial on the ukraine war, but its actions suggest otherwise. why does it continue to support moscow? and is there a point where the support could become untenable? ah, i british manager, welcome to d, w. news, asia, god, you could join us. john, our stop diplomat, one year in moscow meeting russian leaders just days ahead of the one year anniversary of russia invasion of ukraine. one ye held a series of meetings in the backdrop of a war that has rapidly shaped a no limited partnership between moscow and b. jing the latter is now reported to be considering supplying lethal support. went to russia a development that the u. s. has cor front would be a red line. i'm. it's those possibilities. we are looking at a deeper question today. why does china keep supporting russia over ukraine? especially given the china appeals to acknowledge that russia has violated ukraine, stated total integrity. listen to what fall mckuddle in the chinese military. joe boy said to d, n

we need to defeat russia. russia must be defeated.t must be kicked out of ukraine because otherwise it will continue as attacks. it will continue as attacks. it will attack all the countries and it will continue to be a persist threat for global stability. of course , in the stability. of course, in the west, ukraine borders poland . do west, ukraine borders poland. do you in poland fear that vladimir putin could come after you if he's successfully in ukraine? this is absolutely what he is going to do. he will not stop himself if he is successful in any way against ukraine. he will be coming for more and he will be coming for more and he will be attacking other countries , be attacking other countries, baltic states, poland , moldova, baltic states, poland, moldova, countries in central asia as well. he's very open about it. and his his cronies are in his political circle , are very clear political circle, are very clear what they want to do. they are calling , as they as they name calling, as they as they name it, will dinas ificatio

, and not only in russia.d after 2008, when russia invaded georgia — nothing happened. no sanctions were imposed after russia actually occupied 20% of georgian territory. just a thought about comparisons. in the last few months, we've seen tens and tens of thousands of iranians take to the streets of towns and cities across iran, demanding an end to the theocratic authoritarian regime in tehran. why, in russia, has it not been possible for those who do not support vladimir putin, who want a very different russia, to gather together the kind of momentum for street protests that would challenge the repressive grip of vladimir putin? because russians were protesting in 2011 and 2012, and a lot of people were beaten by the police, and criminal cases against them were opened. then it happened in 2016, then in 2019, then in 2021, when alexei navalny returned to russia, a lot of people were... but, with respect, same in iran, same in iran. and the iranians who take to the streets today know there's a very high chance

-russia arms control.thermore, it promotes instability and it is more likely to drive countries to band closer together for the common defense. and it will not compel the united states to back down in its support for ukraine. in terms of how we got here, let me outline russia's noncompliance with new start, which began long before putin announced his intention to suspend the treaty. during the pandemic, the united states and russia mutually accepted a pause to new start inspections. in june 2022, that understanding lapsed after it became clear that both parties could resume inspections while keeping our inspectors and inspected parties say. in august 2022, russia refused to comply with its obligation under new start to facilitate inspection activities on its territory, and russia has maintained that position since then. contrary to russian assertions, there is nothing preventing russian inspectors from traveling to the united states and conducting inspections. since the summer of 2022, we have made crystal

so, because we have some sympathy with russia and knowing that is upon them and the reason for russia to take this cognitive mater action is because nato expansion. i'll be delving deeper into these sympathies in a moment with an analyst 1st. his more by china continues to merely imply support for russia, but is more explicit when it comes to criticizing the united states. i think there is a difference, indeed. you know, that's due to devote the united states and russia because we were taken differently by these 2 countries as well. we will take him by as the primary competitor of the united states. and we were taken the partners by the fire, by russia. so therefore, that you deal with these 2 countries different to china, and we have to consider china is also russia largest neighbor devices. so use this regard to, we have to have to make sure i'm to our relationship with russia. is a good one, is a stable one. when you look at a china, russia relationship, do not always just do, you know, from the eyes of a 3rd person you, this relationship has to be put into context by natural relat

why does russia tolerate its presence there, or can russia achieve its aims in africa without it?> i think themali government has broken with security. the mali government was prepared to use french troops to secure -- for security, but france was not able to do it. the military presence in mali, for them to be not smaller but bigger. adrian: you say that france was unable to do it, can the wegner do it? they are accused of human rights atrocities on the ground. >> we believe that those international organizations which control human rights issues are particularly corrupted and they are lying. for example the ukrainian government, there's no reason to trust such organizations. sometimes these can be quite cruel. adrian: what do you make of that? what are the dangers for african states and cozying up to russia, particularly those being propped up by russian arms and mercenaries? >> one of the things is, if you go back to 2010 when the issue was really high, we saw it being deployed from 2010-2013. there is the logic that -- the question of if a few thousand mercenaries can do what

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and this is something russia understands very well. what does africa expect from russia? if seen that for one thing, africans, but don't expect russia to give them money? my, this is nations across the african continent. i have been getting loans from the west and from china for years now. and all the africans, i talked to attest to that, in fact, what they want is to develop a trade with russia, and especially to increase african exports to russia. if we look at our trade balance with african nations, yes, we'll see that our exports to africa around 4 to 5 times higher than our imports from africa. that i see. ironically, this doesn't mean we export more goods to the african continent than we purchase from it. but the problem is we import african goods almost exclusively through middleman. i don't know if you're aware of this fact, but russia is the 3rd largest consumer of cocoa on the planet. and with that, i'm talking cocoa, beans, cocoa powder, et cetera. conceptually, we could get all the coco we need directly from africa, but we don't do that. first, the cocoa trave

and how did russia react? they began dismantling ukraine's power grid, and there are many other options that russia has available to it to escalate even further. so this is something that the west is aware of. they're aware that russia is in a situation, this is existential for moscow. and they know that they're been tending that o, russia isn't going to to react because they want to continue pushing as, as far as they can. we just look at other instances of the u. s. and nato. whether it was officially under the banner of nato or not in afghanistan, iraq, libya, syria, they eventually laptop canister and after 20 years, this, this shows how stubborn they are. and how much further past any, any point of reason or logic or rationality. they're willing to go in pursuit of advancing their geopolitical objectives. and so we have to ask how far they going to push. and you find this seems to be the end point. yeah, i mean when, when you have a gemini, you don't let it, you don't want it to go away and you get a real

so look at the worthy, there's not russia invasion, if not russia war against the crane is the ring, cried, and it's try not provision on the political settlement. so here, old, like the framing, the way china is presenting solution. it all implies that there will be some concession, the words russia. this is basically employing the language feminine to propose a settlement that is not necessarily taking into account ukraine and what's the majority of your country. thank you. it's ration also in munich while he was at pains to point out that the initiative lay with europe to try and stop the warfare and to use its strategic autonomy in the process. what was one you trying to do here? china has been for many years trying to exploit the concepts off your piano economy . but the way raging understand this concept is very failure. so for china, the most important part of european strategic on me is enough hands to spend your as a confidence on the us and we're waging the strategic goal here is to prevent a more unified bronze. these of the growing china from, from realizing from developi

russia in the person of the kremlin , russia in the person of putin's inner circle, but also russia,alytical groups, are looking for this way out, looking for an option, so to speak, in which it would be possible to survive , and navalny at the moment, at the moment , plays the same official role as prigozhin and throws in some messages, forms some er images that, so to speak, perform a purely technological role at the regular session of the un general assembly planned

so despite all of the functions, despite so much being pulled out of russia, russia has been able to withstand it. it has been able to circle meant a lot of these sanctions and life goes on in the russian capital as well. although without those many recognizable international brands, those, those stations, those coffee shops, those cafes are still open despite they've been changing their names to russian ones and ownership changing to russia. i this mosque, which 3 is a standard 1.5 liter family car. but it comes of the production line of what used to be at reynold production plant, when the french car manufacturer left russia last year, it brought off $2300000000.00 worth of assets and sold. it's russian subsidiary for a symbolic when europe, it has a buyback option in a few years. if thank has been lifted. but for now the 45000 workers who produce nearly a 3rd of russia's car market remain employed. and it seems one company functions crisis was another's opportunity of the what's the difference from gam? upon your own, produce in 2023. we planned to produce 50000 vehicles. $10000.0

and their little russia. so they appeared along the main roads of the turkestan region countless petropavlovsky pokrovka new pokrovka swan and apples. fled to turkestan under the auspices of the russian tsar and persecuted in china, the uyghur muslims of dungan, they also called their villages alexandrovka in honor of alexander ii, and russian settlements were located along large rivers and postal routes from orenburg to tashkent through the right one to semipalatinsk to ensure the safety of transport routes connecting russia from turkestan. l he will say the land in which it is not a shame to lie russian bones, the local population quickly realized that we were not going to take anything from them and were not going to destroy anyone. we want to join them and therefore the opportunity. oh my god, the central asian russian policy, it was undoubtedly more successful than uh, the policy of the british in india created such a bad background for the british from time to time, and the envoys of the indian rotation

support of russia and ukraine.— russia and ukraine.and ukraine. it's hard to talk about this _ russia and ukraine. it's hard to talk about this relationship - russia and ukraine. it's hard to . talk about this relationship without talking about taiwan? right. when you look at this through what's happening with the taiwan relations, how important do you think beijing is looking at this entire situation and gleaming lessons for itself's it's very important because even though the two cases, ukraine and taiwan are very different that they have one important feature in common. both of them have to do with great power confrontation. not only ukraine it's russia against the west. in taiwan it's a big problem, it will be about great power rivalry between china and the united states. so i think china is observing, china is watching the war in ukraine quite carefully, especially how far the west is willing to go in supporting ukraine and what options russia has. but also, china is trying to assess its relationship with russia to cash the check

see china and russia. if russian president vladimir putin wanted 2022 to be his year to reclaim some national glory in battle, ukrainian president voldemort zalinski is vowing that 2023 will be the year ukraine's force his claim victory. by finishing the bad. i'm broke off in berlin. this is the day ah, a year ago and they we, everybody was shocked. news of us. it was a very difficult year. i suffer terrible loss. i hope that people come full. this horror will end with we survived bombardments. didn't really we survived the atrocities windows, doors were blown out, but we only got stronger people to get us, but we no longer feel any emotions. think it's just the best emptiness. there are no words to describe is state people just tight. we have fighting almost whole year without any stop also coming up in their own words, ukrainian women remembering what they saw, heard fault, and felt when they decided to flee the war, we will be exposed. and i remember turning my head to my husband and she looked at me an

for russia arrival in africa. russia has come to serve the african lab. good. not to plunder african of rec, whom are has high hopes for put in the russians as opposed to drive out the islam of extremists. and his view is pretty common in west african countries, despite human rights violations. ah, recent you and reports accused the russian private military group wagner created by russian, businessman, if kenny precaution of torture, summary executions and sexual violence. ah, they allegedly also carried out a series of bloody attacks on autism. all mines on the border between sedan and the central african republic. but for many people, like in tim book to molly, the reports of human rights violations are of less concern. as long as the terrorists are forced back. for example, for abraham at yo yo koya and acted as to his fighting to rebuild tim book 2 after the insurgency. ah, there is a dark book, a greatly diminished all forces. the country has become stronger military lee, do we have made acquisitions? 33. and this acquisitions are changing the cause of the

but the russia has getting stronger and, and russia is doing its constitutional stuff for, for saving the russian russian life. there have been many revelations recently, but we still see the west seeking to convince the international community that represents it as a whole. however, this year again, has brought such a great discussion on the issue of multi polarity. has the west brought this global shift on itself to sort of just isolating itself and bringing other states together like china, russia, it on the yeah. oh, what we saw it. it's goes back to the 2007, i think when, when the landmark speech was dawning, dimension security conference center and the rush, it made the status clear that the, the russia is not part of the international community. what they say they claim to be, oh, of course, a china, iran, brazil, of many great powers. even turkey nowadays are joining eva, saudi arabic joining for the move to pull our world. we are talking about 80 percent of the land masses of the people and landmass of the world war north in these western lead to oh, it's a national communit

s. against arming russia. you are a secretary of state antony blinking, and one ye met on the sidelines of the munich security conference in germany. in later interviews, blinker revealed that the u. s. had information that china was planning to provide legal support to russia in its war in ukraine, and that such support would carry consequences for b ging, i think we also had an opportunity to talk about the russian aggression against ukraine. we're here in munich and many of the country sure, focused as we are on that aggression. and one of the things that i shared with him was a growing concern on our part. the china is considering providing legal support to russia and its aggression against ukraine. and i made clear as president biden has almost from day one with president she that, that would have serious consequences in our own relationship. and beijing has responded by using the us of spreading false information and caution date on finger pointing on china, russia relations. but let's get more context o

in an interview with the tv channel russia 1. he thought about what will happen to the russian people if the west collapses russia . they have one goal: to destroy the former soviet union and its founding part of the russian federation. er, we call it a family of civilized people , but only separately if we go, therefore , i think that the fates of many peoples in russia, and above all of course the russian people , can radically change. in a cardinal way, i don't even know if such an ethnic russian people can be preserved, who sees in it, there are some urals there, and so on. what can it testify to? these are the statements of the president of the russian federation, vladimir putin, and the deputy chairman of the security council , dmitry medvedev, we will discuss further with us in contact is the minister of foreign affairs of ukraine 2007-2009 and the head of the russian research center volodymyr ogrysko good evening putin , when he says that the russian federation may fall apart , what do you think? no, it's not aimed at tha

is at war, all questions are for russia, russia is waging a military struggle, its people are dying, it is losing its resources, and china is also losing its resources. i think he will wait for a certain moment when there will be a border where china already it will cease to be profitable due to the possibility of growth - this is a direct collision of the sign with the nato countries, that's when china, i think, can declare itself and say in a certain sense that go to negotiations with me, not with putin. you see, i think that in fact i tried to understand for myself for a long time and why these chinese balloons flew to america on the eve of state secretary blinkin's visit to china. it is completely illogical when it would seem that it is possible to look for a russian trail, but it seems to me that china is trying to seize the initiative in the sense that if there is a multipolar world, then russia is not in it, there is a player china and the united states, and if we talk about something in the future with russia, then we need to talk about it, including taking into account the f

see china and russia. if russian president vladimir putin wanted 2022 to be his year to reclaim some national glory in battle, ukrainian president voldemort zalinski is vowing that 2023 will be the year ukraine's force his claim victory. by finishing the bad. i'm broke off in berlin. this is the day ah ah, in the year go in this they we, everybody was shocked to lose of us. it was a very difficult year. i suffer terrible loss. i hope the piece will come. full. this horror will end with we survived. bombardments didn't really. we survived the atrocities windows, doors were blown out, but we only got stronger people. to get us, we no longer feel any emotions. even think it's just the best emptiness. there are no words to describe his state. people just tight, we have fighting almost whole year without any stop. also coming up in their own words, ukrainian women remembering what they saw heard fault, and felt when they decided to flee the war. we woke up because explosions. and i remember turning my head to m

russia over individual branches of the economy and so on.lassic soft power in action and for this you don't need to introduce troops for this you don't need to start a war and do all this stupidity that the russian regime did a year ago and in the end back in 2014 annexing crimea and occupying a part of the territory of the ukrainian donbass, we actually uh, now china is somehow trying to make the most of this situation, so they buy cheap chinese, cheap russian energy carriers, companies buy shares, take control and so on. in the end , it seems to me that all this will end with model a- and in which relations between russia and belarus are currently taking place, only russia will turn into the belarus of china, yes, that is, well, it will be practically fun, yes, it will be practically full political, economic, and security control over this region, and then the chinese say the west. well , you see me right at this russian leader. the model of subordination that is now what all of belarus is for. it seems to me that so far china is strategic

and russia. that nuclear weapons that france and great britain have, if the russians reacted vehemently, years ago when the u.s. started to discuss the nuclear weapons that china has. when i raised the prospect of trying to get the chinese involved in a trilateral discussion of arms control, the russians would say it is extraneous, this is the treaty between the united states and russia. do not introduce a third country. if you do, we will introduce an extraneous matter, which is nuclear weapons held by your to nato allies on the security council. now putin says we will only go back into participate in the new start treaty if we consider what the french and british half. he is going a step further than suspending participation in the treaty, but the most important point, and commentators after the speech congratulated putin on a more sophisticated and elegant way of nuclear blackmail. we have got this destructive war in ukraine that you are waging against us, let me remind you that i can suspend

are you, they belong to the, in this case, to the central bank of russia. so they can make sure that there's no nefarious activity happening when those transactions are understood. i think a lot of the crypt, the current c, maxima lists may not like where this is going. however, you know, this is the technology that is developing and evolving all the time. we want more more of the, you know, we want adoption, we know people to use or that, you know, unfortunately, i think in order for more people to use things, you are going to be the supportive government. and governments are going to need to have more oversight as to how these transactions occur. what difference bring me going with my debit card and paying for things with a digital rhythm? what is the plan difference? yes, so really absolutely nothing for us to use the union, but the fundamental difference is you're not going to have these, these cumbersome payment networks involved. so for the w debit card, if we're, if we're talking to all of us in the west, that will be using mastercard and visa, maste

turkey pointed out russia and that russia put the missiles in cuba. that is when kennedy died down.ed our people out of turkey. they put the missiles out of cuba. biden started this. i do not know why he started this. he is a weak president. this guy has been in politics too long. that is about all i have to say. host: this is linda in california, independent. good morning. caller: hi. i want to say this is not biden's fault. it is part of it because he is a part of this move to bring printed now -- vladimir putin down. he is brought russia off of this beat -- off of its feet. vladimir putin brought them off the ground after the millionaires, oligarchs were not paying taxes and left the country. this is not by replicants war. it is the people who have been trying to make usa number one, the solar leader of the world. host: do the russians is in a better place than 12 months ago? caller: is that the question? is russia in a better place today than problem is ago? nobody is in a better place today. the rep. good: had to do that. i'm glad he kept that were in ukraine. i respect him as

metoo -- russia is always -- russia is also running out of ammunition. and lost as much as 50% of its tanks. our coalition has provided ukraine with state-of-the-art equipment. helping them to run faster as we forced russia to go slower. russia is forced to turn to mothball sylvie era weapons. our expert controls and sanctions will continue to prevent russia from accessing the equipment it needs to make up for these losses. our sanctions will make it harder for the kremlin to use their remaining resources. while russia's economic data appears to be better than many expected our actions are forcing the kremlin to use resources to prop up its economy at a time it will rather be arresting every dollar in their war machine. some of our first actions as well as sections and the sweet thing said to a decline. creating rule on the russian economy. the crippling student pleading caribou controlled provision of money from leaving the country. they use the remaining assets to prop up their card to the russian economy continues to the interior. a good example of th

russia of the map? and if that's the case, i mean, in practical terms, what do they actually want to achieve? you know, i mean there's been so many different statements made. ultimately i said the bottom line is the bible ration would like to to restore the the status quo ante, which is which would be 2 for russian troops to withdraw to their free for february 24th position when they were offered in geneva. during the last sunday, by putting them between put an invite and they didn't take that offer. yeah, i mean it's completely illogical. irrational, why we didn't do that? essentially, it was really a matter of pride. it by the, by administration refused to close the open door policy for nato, that any nation in the world can join date on it. it's, it's really ridiculous. you know, we could have had a policy that allowed for other european countries other, other than the former soviet union to joint that they closed the door for a former soviet republic outside of the baltics. and that was, i believe,

in russia and the u. s can, can represent you crazed us interest without having ukraine at the table while. ah, mister pine, i think we are very optimistic, but maybe that's the american spirit i. i hope that i definitely join your hopes for peace and for a rational way to the ceasefire. we have tended there, but i'm very, very grateful for your time today. think and thank you very much and thank you for watching hope to sir. again, unable to find ah ah, ah ah ah, ah, ah, ah, lou needs to come to the russian state. little never the tires on the nose landscaping with rural van in the european union. the kremlin media machine, the state on to russia for date, and our t spoke neck. even our video agency, roughly all band to on youtube with mm ah, the lives of this, our russian brother. but it is soon said to give his annual speech to the country to parliament, the anniversary of the operations to crane a yet another series of earthquake with 6 people reported killed in about 300 of them ended as a whole. pre

to russia. if we look at our trade balance with african nations, we'll see that our exports to africa around 4 to 5 times higher than our imports from africa. that i see. ironically, this doesn't mean we export more goods to the african continent than we purchase from it. but the problem is we import african goods almost exclusively through middleman. i don't know if you're aware of this fact, but russia is the 3rd largest consumer of cocoa on the planet with that i'm talking cocoa, beans, cocoa powder, et cetera. conceptually, we could get all the coco we need directly from africa, but we don't do that. first, the cocoa travels back to switzerland than from switzerland to estonia, which is one of our neighbors. back in soviet times, there was a terminal built there to receive in store cocoa beans. russia doesn't have a terminal like that said, nobody thought of building one. so we have to pay $3.00 times the price of the same cocoa, instead of buying it directly from africa. also, as a result,

and russia. what are some of the underlying reasons for it? see, of course, it's a very, very complex geopolitical situation because existing day in eurasia, central eastern europe or bases like that's what we basically want to describe. but what obviously be the root cause of it goes back to 1945, 46, the end of the 2nd world war, and the subsequent cornwall, which exists for the better part of 4040 years in which the finally, the soviet union broke up. and all the states which were part of the soviet union, 15 states, the commonwealth of independent states, subsequent b underwater, back states me, mr. natal, one and short the balance of power in europe dead to started joining the neutral site. and it was there to florida near dawes week green minute keywords in the military week be in the cold war, which was pushing the former soviet union of russia backwards. there wasn't a dollar and there was a level of dog rooms at red light which exist or it was really difficult to finding that, but under

he said that russia is losing its people, its forces. we have to break any attempts of russia to interceptnitiative and we will do it we will hear from zelensky this day was also about a longer perspective defense issues economic issues ideas other with an eye on the spring of this year we have to draw a conclusion so that it really feels that ukraine is moving towards victory, this concerns the preparation of our defense forces, the supply of weapons for our state and our strategic initiative in the war, any attempt by russia to take the initiative must be broken. i am sure that you will do it, the enemy is already losing so many of its people of our forces that it will soon be difficult to find , for example, marines throughout russia, and our task is to make sure that there are fewer and fewer of them there, and the desire to keep ukrainian territories under occupation , the liberation of our land is the goal of the implementation of which we work every day, the demands we want to win over putin, the west also wants, mr. oleksandr, and what is left at least some percentage that putin ca

coming up, will get how russia and chinese relations have changed since russia invaded ukraine and then a view from the global south, particularly africa. how the continent is affected by the ukraine war. stay with us. ♪♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. as we continue our coverage of the first anniversary of russia's invasion of ukraine, we turn now to look at how the war has impacted russian-chinese relations. on wednesday, russian president vladimir putin hosted chinese cap diplomat wang yi in moscow. this is putin. >> international relations today are more difficult. they have not improved after the collapse of the bipolar system. on the contrary, they become more sharp. in this regard, cooperation and the international arena between the people's republic of china and the russian federation as we have repeatedly underlined, plays an important role in stabilizing the international situation. >> i think we have every good opportunity today to continue our close strategic cooperation and contact

be able to wage this war, don't you see the parallels of modern russia with the russia of the time ofn, as of the 14th year, the year of the beginning of the first world war, it was a fairly successful economic country which initiated the reforms, in the end he was stolypi. well, he was already killed before the 14th year, but the country got involved in this unnecessary world war i, and the tsar did not listen to his surroundings, the tsar listened to the opinion of grigory rasputin, who always insisted that this was the holy mission of the tsar enter this war and in the end it ended with the complete collapse of the empire, the collapse and murder of rasputin himself and nicholas the second. are there any parallels between modern russia and putin? you see, when we compare hitler from putin to hitler, we are doing a certain thing . i think that the polish regime is deeply rooted in russian history. so you say , you know, you can say that russia tries to pretend that we are a state. the empire is crumbling at the end, well, now there was no big battle, you just have to withstand all t

why russia invaded ukraine, that the expansion of nato has been in his eyes a threat to russia. and that essentially he was forced to act. now one reason why i think he's, he's very keen to use this narrative is narrative that has some traction and get some understanding in some other parts of the world. clearly in china and when you look at the chinese position, which we heard pretty well exposed over the weekend to the munich security conference here in germany. chinese top diplomat was there. and while he talks about sort of principles like the sovereignty of states and the territorial territorial integrity of states, which is basically diplomatic language for one country, can't just go and take bites out of another. at the same time, he talks very much about showing understanding for this narrative that there's an expansion is kind of united states here of influenced and that it is a threat to russia. and that the chinese see that will. so as a threat to it in asia. now, of course that nature is made very clear, absolutely not threatening russia in any way. there is absolute

to be prepared for the fact that russia can go to our possessions russia was definitely the main threatd, of course. this is explained in the central asian rivalry with russia in central asia in afghanistan begins a struggle for control of the central asian region, which divided the territory of the russian empire and the british colonies in 1810 by two british officers, 22. they had to find out. will the enemy army, that is, the russians, be able to pass this route, the task turned out to be incredibly risky charles christie once, almost was exposed when a local mullah in one of the villages entered into a serious dispute with him about islam. he was buying himself a pair of shoes. hands all the way, lieutenant cotinger, introduced secret daily records of everything he saw and heard, he noted springs and rivers of crops and the nature of the climate, outlined the best places for defense, his notes became. the first military map of the western approaches to india in 3 months. british scouts traveled more than two and a half thousand kilometers. putin fat for doing this unique mission. a

russia.le in ukraine , which means that i don’t know how to inflict a strategic defeat on russia. in mytishchi , you understand, please, try but no, thanks. no, yes, defeat on the battlefield and thus draw attention to russia strategic defeat. you understand the meaning of the word strategic bring a dictionary. do you have a thin dictionary with the letter c, please , then again. as i understand it, it's good, i understood it differently, but we have a difference, firstly, secondly. look at this when when joseph biden says, there, which time, that they are not going to russia, uh, destroy control, did not plan to attack, and so on, it immediately comes to mind. it's not a document, it's words. well, as you say, blah blah words words, i remember one more word, and in the late eighties the beginning nineties that they were told they were expanding nato yes. there is also believe it or in some other way, or it is already exactly one hundred pounds, the truth is one thing expansion is not necessa

russia does not need the good of the country, thank you mr.jad, senior expert on eurasian issues, china is concerned about the fate of the weapons sent to western ukraine, the spokesperson of the chinese foreign ministry said that the weapons that america supplies to ukraine are often in the hands of criminal groups in europe and other parts of the world. it arrives earlier hungary also warned about weapons sent to ukraine falling into the hands of arms smugglers. the power outage of about one million american households due to the storm has disrupted the lives of about 60 million americans. the winter storm in the united states has so far covered parts of 29 american states. this storm caused earthquakes. 3,500 flights have been stuck and transportation has been disrupted on the highways, the temperature in some areas has reached minus 46 degrees below zero, the united nations says that turkey is facing the biggest problem in the history of automobiles. million people in the south of this country, he said that iran should rebuild at least 500

today, rivalry with russia in the 19th century outweighs the fact that russia was ally of britain inst and second world wars, the reason is that for 40 years after 1945, russia , the soviet union was almost an enemy rival in the cold war. this reaffirmed all stereotypes of the big game. in this case the big game still matters for britain we were at war with the british. we fought with the soviet union. who are these countries now? now they are friends of afghanistan in a new big game involving chinese americans. russian indians of iran pakistan is also part of this game and afghanistan is taking part in the game we are trying to maximize our interests and the players of the big game are trying to maximize their interests. let's see who will get more. and who is less, well, the idea of ​​weakening russia as a state, they never died. they have always lived, live and will live as long as russia exists as a state, because russia is unconditional. call. great power is not a shiny tinsel emotional dress that can be kept in a chest and dressed like an order on holidays. this is a huge respo

that's what the world demands from russia. and that's the wording of a resolution that was passed resoundingly by the united nations general assembly. the un took the rare step of calling an emergency special session to vote on the 10 point plan to end the fighting just ahead of the 1st anniversary of russia's invasion of ukraine dropped his illusion. e flesh yes, 11 flesh l 7 is adopted. a message to moscow from the majority of the worlds nations cease hostilities with ukraine and withdraw your military immediately slash the resolution drafted by ukraine was passed by a 141 of the you ends 100 and $92.00 member nation session on the eve of the wars one year anniversary less hell. the result is not binding. evan, but it shows the wide support ukraine has around the world. we are satisfied with the outcome and the message is clear. it doesn't matter what russia thrice and how it attempts to undermine international order. and the coalition in support of ukraine, student tauriel, integrity, it fails. one time after another follow

of course, i agree with the un that russia can block this decision. but also russia may not block it, for example, in order to later gain advantages when it talks about crimea and the dpr of the lpr, that is , russia can also take advantage of this situation to give kosovo, for example, membership of the un and then demand international communities of a certain decision regarding the occupied territories in ukraine, which are and will serbia comply with? i think the question here is how much the west will press, how quickly the west will act regarding their association , if the west will play its game for a very long time, as they are very actually continued this situation for a long time with the integration of the former yugoslavia and later serbia into the eu because in the former yugoslavia i started negotiations regarding the association even before the wars before the wars that took place in the 90s and this whole process was very long if the west is quick now, it will most likely be able to pull serbia over to its side, because serbia is again financially dependent on the west,